exorbitant

Example Sentences

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Just as things start looking up, Amanda’s car is stolen, left in an illegal spot and towed, and the towing company slaps her with an exorbitant $21,000 bill for circumstances entirely out of her control.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

But many Venezuelans say they have yet to see the results on exorbitant prices for basic goods like food and medicine.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

But the price she paid was exorbitant — in her words, a life “decimated by grief and loss and exile.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Molten glass drops through chutes before being blown into bottles at manufacturer Encirc's northwest England plant, where intensive operations are under strain from exorbitant energy prices weighing on Britain's heavy industry.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

She reasoned, perhaps, that he did not want to pay the exorbitant rents that everyone was charging now that the world’s fair was under way.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson